cyprus officials and the euro crowds are flocked to moscow to thresh of the three way rescue as the island sees of a shuttered the banks and cold shoulder from euro. a rocket attack on israel mas obama's visit in the region as a means of palestinian leader mahmoud some in the hopes of bringing peace a closer. and both the syrian government and opposition to manned an international probe into and the legit deadly chemical attack. after hurdling accusations at each other.

you along with us on our g for more international news analysis and a report signed to bomb would say. the seabirds of finance minister is in moscow as talks are to save the show banking hop from bankruptcy and to quench time the stakes are high with speculations that cypress could also a natural gas exploration rights to secure russian help time is running out for the island nation as i do when doing cash reserve a push towards default artie's you've got peace cannot spics up the story. the cypriot finance minister has explained that the country is not asking russia for a new loan but for investment in exchange for shares in its banking and energy sector the minister has been negotiating with russian officials in moscow for the past couple of days he said that no official proposal has been made so far but he stressed that he's not leaving the russian capital until an agreement is reached in

the meantime several senior u.s. officials are clearly also want to capitalize including the head of the european commission draws them out although rosell also discussing the crisis in a side earlier russia's prime minister due to the media has a really strong words to say about the situation but for the year so far the e.u. together with the cyprus parliament have unfortunately acted like a bull in a china shop i think all possible mistakes which could have been made in this situation have been made the prime minister didn't stop there if your sole compared to the approach with which european union officials are dealing with the private bank accounts to how suck it up that he's dealt with the private funds of soviet citizens meaning expropriation of private property and now earlier the problems of cyprus rejected to the european union's bailout plan which included introducing a tax for private bank accounts in the country yeah and cyprus is still on the

verge of bankruptcy time is running out for the country and its president said that a decision must be made before the end of the day. the european central bank has set an ultimatum for cyprus eye those strike a bailout deal by monday all be cobbled from emergency funds that would be a devastating blow for. banks remain shuttered to prevent a mass like cash withdrawals let's cross to all correspondent for more on what's happening in the capital tess what exactly does the e.c.b. have to say and how has that warning been received. the message is so widespread now across the capital that when you walk down the street wherever there's a television it's on the news channel and. the e.c.b. has liquidity flow to cyprus will end on monday if there was no e.u. or i.m.f. program in place and that really poses a problem as far as cash flow was concerned we've already gone to some a.t.m.

machines are people lining up they're trying to get some cash and some people tell me their limit the amount of money they can get from from one withdrawal has lessened some from four hundred for example to about two hundred euros we also went to a gas station and there are signs that they don't no longer accept these apartment because he said if you don't have any cash that you won't get any gas because they have to hold on to was much cash as they want as far sentiment goes so there's a a super bowl here that said that ninety one percent of a cypriot subject to the poles of. imposing decided upon in brussels and sixty seven percent now favor an exit from the euro zone and stronger relations with russia i think now many people are just simply trying to find out if there's anybody out there who can help them because they know that the star situation of the financial situation directly impacts their daily lives really some people are telling me that they have to ask their family members just to have a couple of hundred euros to have groceries until the next week so the situation on

the ground really i think it's it's kind of spiraling getting getting a little bit more intense as people realize. running out of cash money in their pockets literally and when i asked them book the banks will open next week or possibly tuesday and they asked me back well what if it doesn't open i think this question that's hanging over their heads is really what's worrying tesler so many questions hanging over this of course we'll keep an update on this story as it unfolds attests assyria in any close. robert oulds or chairman although the brogues a group of witches and the e.u. focus i think tango believes the ease pressure on cyprus exposes the warring hierarchy within the block. it seems that certain countries such as germany are really pushing their own agenda and those countries are small and can't really stand up to the larger interests in the your opinion the large financial interests of french and german banks are really pushed around and are and or

bullied and do not get a good deal and this is very dark from the e.u. to try and take percentage of the savings of the p six banks which is actually we could argue that's actually breaching e.u. law was on protection protecting deposits so it's actually very silly and it's also bullying and is actually counterproductive because it's now threatening the whole banking system in southern europe because people see you is no friend of those who have tapings in by counts it is no friend of protecting deposits and bank profits on what actually is this really otherwise should be. the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has been hosting talks with us president barack obama who's in on his first ever visit to the west bank obama's trip as been overshadowed by reports of gaza and rocket attack on israel that came after obama's meeting there on wednesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on a sphere has more on this. there were four rockets that were fired from the

northern gaza in town of beit hanoun as israel two landed inside gaza but one landed in the back yard of a residential home in the southern israeli town of still water now there were no injuries although there was some damage to the back yard this coming on the second day of the american president barack obama's visit to the palestinian city of ramallah so he obama so far is speaking primarily to the israeli public and he admitted as much last night after he met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he said that his goal is to talk to the israelis he's spoken about the importance of israeli security and he's also committed american financial assistance to israel. clearly in terms of military programs beyond two thousand and seventeen when the current contracts expire now there's been very little mention so far of the palestinians of the peace process of the continued israeli settlement expansion and this is in stark contrast to the speech the president gave back in

two thousand and nine in cairo when he said that one of his priorities in terms of his foreign policy was resolving the palestinian issue having said that though there is a lot of mistrust between a bomb and the time yahoo there is a lot of areas and disagreement they certainly don't see eye to eye on the issue of iraq and here we have mr yahoo continuing to call for a military strike while obama continues to say that all options are on the table and that there is still time for diplomacy so certainly in this what we see is that despite the p.r. efforts there is no running away from the fact that mr han yahoo still holds firm to israeli commitment even if it means turning his back on his close allies we here in this clip israel can never see the road to different persons to others even to the greatest of our friends there's already been a handful of demonstrations against the american president here in the west bank and certainly today the police are in full force on the streets there's a strong security presence and people are expected to come to the streets to

protest no real information that we have at this stage in terms of what will be presented during those talks but we do think that the american president is likely to ask the palestinian leadership to resume talks without preconditions now this is an israeli position the palestinian position is that there needs to be a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders there needs to be a halt in construction of settlements and in this respect the anticipation and at least the analysis on the ground is that obama is not going to push the israelis but rather push the palestinians to meet the israeli demands. well you can find out all the latest updates on the protests in palestine and obama's meeting with mahmoud abbas on policy is a twitter feed follow not policy under school art. why for some perspective on this let's talk to derek graham an activist in gaza mr graham on both israel and palestine vying for washington support what do the palestinians

expect from the u.s. president barack obama. at the moment from seeing what obama has said so far the palestinians are expecting very much about the husband has come and he has basically told the release that he is their ally and he will do everything he can possible two hundred years really situation where he has actually said nothing in regards to the palestinians he hasn't mentioned settlement phrases he hasn't mentioned the sixty seven borders he has giving nothing to the palestinians so would you say that he's got the palestinians interests in mind while he's negotiating peace with israel i don't think so because there is rumor that he will say something about the palestinians when he's in the israeli university this afternoon but he's saying this when he's in the safety of israel rather than saying that when he was today

when he was in ramallah if it was something positive towards the palestinians i think he would have said that when he was in ramallah. israel's insists that it is ready to open dialogue with the palestinians are one of the key obstacles to the talks. well the main obstacle has and always will be the succulents they have continued to build settlements day after day after day and you know whose governments continuously announce new settlements and the world stands by and obama himself has actually called the freeze of settlements and the israelis just ignore what he says and continues on what they're doing what they're doing and this stumbling block is the settlements you know some experts said that this is a trip but president obama was a p.r. stunt do you see there i mean they're clear differences in terms of policy between the u.s. and israel do you think obama netanyahu managed to close that gap during that

wednesday meeting. i think one yes it was a p.r. stunt because he has hasn't actually done anything in regards to the palestinian israeli issue he may have talked with you know in regards to iran you know that would be a different subject altogether i think that's where the main stumbling block is between israel and america at the moment is what to do with iran but in regards to palestine there has been no further movement what do you expect for the talks in pella so what do you expect them to to say what's expected for what these talks what do you want to hear from him. what i would like to hear i work with what i will hear i think will be two different things i think the will obama will try and true or the palestinians are born by. you know to release the

taxes that the israelis are holding on the palestinians. there will be no circumvent freeze so that's that's a major stumbling block. i don't think that there will be too much out of this whole visit for the palestinians thank you very much a very good graham and activist to any gods are they talking to us live. right now if you want to express or to express your opinion on the stories that we cover here on our t.v. you can of course go to r.t. dot com. we actually want you to take part in a poll were asking you want to use see obama's real intentions of coming to israel now he's up twenty three percent of you think the way to keep israel from attacking iran that's the reason why he was there sixty five percent of you says it was a pyrrhic stunt that will achieve nothing while percent of you say paying lip service only to palestine while four percent of you they think that attempting to

resume the peace talks now of course or you can pass a your voice on r.t. dot com do you go there we want to know what you think of blood this subject the first of fishel reaction to guantanamo prisoners a hunger strike the general in charge of the scene the prisons and the detainees are starving themselves out of frustration at obama's failure to close down the prison. british veterans of the aiders world war two convoys have finally been recognized for their valor but questions linger over why they weren't allowed to accept medals of some monster that's coming up stay with us . well. technology innovation all the developments from

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welcome back you're watching our syria's government and rebels up it's demanding an international probe into an alleged deadly chemical attack they've traded accusation as to who was behind the assault me of the northern city of aleppo that killed up to thirty one people and wounded dozens of others are jazeera going to show is following the developments. reports that chemical weapons have been used in the. area of the aleppo province this is are not clear at the moment people were rushed to hospital after the attack few had visible wounds to their bodies but some of them were clearly suffering from some breathing difficulties now that is of the assaults were saying that they saw other people falling to the floor dying witnesses have confirmed to r.t. that people have been suffering from effects of what seems to be some sort of gas back. here.

where you're. now who could be behind this attack both assad's forces and rebels are pointing the finger of blame at each other but the rockets reportedly fell in areas controlled by the government the syrian rebels have long tried to overrun the weapons plant located in the very same area you can see it on the map right there aleppo and then also fear that is the place where some of the country's chemical stockpile is said to be stored in fact the syrian government said in december that rebel forces plundered supplied of chlorine gas and some time ago this video was posted online showing animals purportedly being killed with chemicals those behind this footage affiliated themselves with assad's opponents and threaten to do the same with those who support the syrian president yet all of this evidence doesn't seem to convince president obama deeply skeptical. in fact it was the

opposition that used chemical weapons and interesting use of the word skeptical with the stakes being so high one of the biggest concerns for all is this an area where syria's chemical arsenal falls into the hands of extremists fighters among opposition forces as history has shown there are examples when fighters supported by the west have eventually turned their arms against their backers now let's for just a moment imagine that extremists among the rebel fighters could get hold of chemical weapons how bad could the rounded attacks for example of two thousand and five have been if that was the case we've already seen images of a chemical attack on a subway in a huge city in one thousand nine hundred five in tokyo by religious sect now imagine a similar scenario was staged by people who work throughout the conflict in syria initially supported by the west the u.s. general in charge of overseeing guantanamo bay says of the hunger strike among prisoners shows they're frustrated with the government's failure to close the

facility however the detainees lawyers are say it is an abuse and the desecration of the koran the number of participants acknowledged by the pentagon has now risen to twenty five but attorneys maintain it's more than one hundred g.'s gammage again brings us the latest. what we see here is a small protest in front of the white house one told him all his been out of the media spotlight for a while now you don't see much coverage on major u.s. news channels even with the hunger strike going on there right now so these people are trying to draw attention to the detainees more than fifty lawyers representing the president sent a letter to defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help in that letter they said the participants health had deteriorated alarmingly and that some had lost more than twenty or thirty pounds that is nine to fourteen kilograms medical experts say by day forty five participants can experience potential blindness and potential loss of hearing so what prompted these people to resort to such a desperate move i was a consultant if you were in that case and on those men would tell their attorney

basically i don't want to talk with your what's the point of talking with you i don't want to know the date i'm going to get out of here but there are no gay people all. all of us many of the detainees have come to believe and this is what they say we heard this from their lawyers that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin in january a state department shut down the office that was working to close guantanamo more than half of those detainees are sitting there with papers from the u.s. clearing them for with leaves and yet with no hope that they're ever going to be free again the officials are certainly trying to downplay the hunger strike but they're pressed for answers and they sure know what's going on and what caused the strike in the first place marine corps general john kelly and it's his command that oversees guantanamo he was testifying in congress this wednesday he said the prisoners had launched the hunger strike because they're frustrated take a listen they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were

devastated when the president did you know backed off at least their perception of closing the facility that has caused them to become frustrated and they want to get this i think turned you don't get it back in the media. on our part will continue to press officials for answers as the strike continues and involves more people in washington i'm going to check on. the story gets a little attention in mainstream american media but here at r.g.p. we've been following it from the beginning we've got a timeline of events on our website as well as comments by u.n. and prison officials detainees lawyers and activists head on to r.t. dot com for the full picture. a selected group of the u.k. world war two veterans have been awarded by prime minister david cameron for their service during the arctic convoys the convoys are brought supplies to the soviet union in the fight against nazi germany last year london was criticized for

rejecting moscow's offer to grant to the british veterans a special award and that's probably what we call reports feelings of gratitude tinge to with sadness and anger. a quarter of a million men took part in the arctic convoys over seventy years ago sadly today just a handful of those brave men still survived after decades of campaigning the case convoy veterans or downing street to pick up their new limited medals but launch of our own project will be worth it it's been a long. bridge been a wonderful day long time coming but. one little bit of. his own. ship night has crossed the back. and forth. during the war ninety two year old american bashford served in the royal air force as an electrical engineer he was part of a secret operation that traveled on board the first stock to convoy to russia back

in one thousand nine hundred forty one. mr truitt you start a second front to grow back. into the frog to relieve the pressure on the russians mr churchill so we will thorough new some airplanes and we'll soon you're going to fly them well so near the moon too so buying time and. i will treat you and we will furnish more airplanes so that's how we kinds there were to be in the in russia during world war two british ships transported around four million tons of supplies food and munitions for the soviet union more than three thousand sailors didn't survive the journey west subzero temperatures and german air raids were a fact of life on earth. on the rigging on the royals on the dirt you've got to squash. the. frogs and of course you

gotta die after die after dying there so you can be a bit frightening yeah last year the british government came under fire for blocking veterans receiving a special commemorative award i've never actually government that medal was to be awarded as a symbol of the attitude from all that british veterans did to help the soviet union during the darkest days of the war and we know we went through once who was yet despite the opposition of m.p.'s the foreign office blocked the move saying the fight against nazi germany happened too long ago for the men to be recognized effectively leaving some veterans to die without recognition for their service and the thanks they deserved i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful that the we were not the commode rooms i mean all stroy humans are those that the americans though been awarded movie except one of us normally you know the

russians it was insulting to us. so this arctic star is. a little bit of. software in it. if you're. not with the pride. the russian. for those who braved the arctic waters and served their country all those years ago it's a day of celebration shaking hands with the prime minister followed by a reception on the h.m.s. belfast with their arctic stars in tow but for many it's a celebration that's left a bitter aftertaste for the owners it's come too late for those who could still wear it. artsy london. and some international newsy in brief a massive car bomb has exploded in a refugee camp outside the northwestern pakistan a city of peshawar killing at least twelve people and injuring twenty and the

government run camp is home to more than sixty thousand people who fled the conflict between the army and the taliban new group has claimed responsibility for the attack. on. the jail the leader of could sit in turkey. has called for a ceasefire with the government in a message read out to tens of thousands of kurdish a new year celebrations this of all those months of secret negotiations with authorities and is seen as a step of towards ending the twenty nine year conflict that has left forty thousand people did a week ago that could restart work as part of the p.k. game made a symbolic gesture releasing eight turkish hostages. but overall financial choices are facing cyprus are up for discussion in the kaiser report in a few minutes.

jorge rios an argentinian student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that they get to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgeon i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in

a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joint to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreigners to work for two dollars an hour cheaper it is corporate greed and their absolute disrespect for americans that allows this to happen just pay the extra two dollars and have americans work for you to cheap corporate pigs but that's just my opinion.

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